Planned Transportation Spending

Maine

An examination of Maine’s 2010-2013 Statewide Transportation Improvements Program reveals that transit projects account for the largest chunk of planned spending (28 percent).* Road maintenance/minor widening and bridge maintenance/replacement follow, 22 percent and 19 percent respectively. The “other” category accounts for 16 percent of the planned spending and includes items such as general planning expenditures, freight costs and information technology. Road or bridge projects with bicycle/pedestrian components (such as adding sidewalks when reconstructing a roadway) make up 7 percent of planned spending. Bicycle/pedestrian projects comprise 3 percent of the program, as do new road capacity projects. Safety projects comprise 2 percent of the program, and, at less than 1 percent, bridge capacity expansion projects make up the smallest share of the proposed spending.
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